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Here's a cool newspaper article that David Hubbard recieved this past Wednesday in The Garden Island Kauai newspaper . David is pretty exicited to be on team Morey.

Ricky Miller has been reporting EPIC waves on the east coast for the past week and he sent us some sweet photos for proof. The photos are of our boy Ricky Miller and east coast legend Goat Collins.
Here's a few pics Mokitom.com took this past weekend at Salt Creek beach and Wedge. This first two are Chris Monroe with the cutback cutty reverse at Salt Creek.

John "Beans" Porzuczek scooping into a heavy slab pit at The Wedge.

Ricky just e-mailed us some photos from his recent adventures down to Puerto Excondido Mexico and he reports that the waves were fun and pumping. From the photos it looks like it was warm and the barrels were nice and blue.

We just recieved some nice little video frame grabs of Dave Hubbard on his first session riding a Morey board in some fun So Cal surf. Last week Dave "Dub" Hubbard worked on his new boards with Yamo our custom shaper and is really stoked on his new rides!

Morey welcomes DUBB to the team from John Idano on Vimeo.

Official Morey Bodyboards Press Release:
Morey is proud to announce the signing of 3-time and current Dropknee World Champion bodyboarder, David Hubbard. At 26 years of age, David, or “DUB” by which he is known in the bodyboarding world, has received numerous accolades. Over the past two years he has placed first in several worldwide bodyboard competitions, has been on 5 magazine covers and has been featured in multiple videos. David and Morey have signed a multi-year deal. Said David, “I am excited about joining the team, and carrying on Morey’s rich history as the original bodyboard brand.” Currently, David is working with Morey’s Oceanside team to design a line of high-performance signature models for the Morey Elite series. For more info on David Hubbard and Morey Bodyboards, please log onto WWW.MOREYBODYBOARDS.COM

Morey is proud announce the signing of California super grom John "Beans" Porzuczek to the team. Beans stopped by our Oceanside office this week to pick up a new board from Yamo for his voyage to the North Shore of Oahu next week. Beans will be over there competing in the Pipe comp and working with Morey's videographer John Idano

Once again a reminder that the Morey OBX Pro/Am contest is now less than a month away so make sure to enter soon as heats are filling up. To enter or learn more about the event, log onto www.obxproam.com . Rumors are spreading that some of the world’s best will be showing up for the event! In other news, Morey California riders, Colin Carri, Chris Monroe and Mike Lepiere scored some fun little wedgers this past Sunday just south of the California border, check out the cool pix taken by T-Street legend Tom Prince. Finally we close this news blurb with a picture of Ricky Miller in the hospital a few weeks ago with some of the eastcoast’s elite cast. Thanks to Jeremy Miekle for sharing the picture.

With the recent fun little swells hitting Southern California, the Morey guys had some time to test out the some of the new Morey boards and John Idano was there to capture some of the action before breaking his arm trying to help a scared surfer exit the water on the rocks. John is healing quickly and is expected to be better just in time to cover the action at the Morey Pro/Am contest coming up at the Outerbanks in North Carolina on November 15th and 16th. For more info on the event log onto www.obxproam.com

Ricky Miller is now back in action after his visit to the hospital a few weeks back and reports that the waves were firing on the outer banks today (10-15-08) and fun was to be had by all. Judging from these photos he sent in, you definitely can tell it was sick for the east coast.

Here is some footage of John "BEANS" Porzuczek ripping it up in the Cook Islands taken by Rob Isambert of Uprising Films. These are just the scraps that didn't make the cut to the real video, but at any rate, it is some pretty sweet footage of Beans. Enjoy.

It's that time of year again for the annual Morey Outerbanks Pro am contest going down in North Carolina on November 15th and 16th. Last year this contest had really sick waves and competetion was tough, so whether your a competive rider or spectator, make sure to come down and check it out! Morey will be sending the video crew again to cover the event and the pro prize purse is expected to be the biggest yet! Also make sure to check the video below of last years event.

Last week John "Beans" Porzuczek reported some good sessions at the Wedge and judging from Rob Isambert's frame grabs, it looks like Beans was surfing well. To see all the actual footage, you're gonna have to wait until Ring of Fire 2 comes out on DVD....

We just got a report from our Kauai team rider Pyper Lluellen that he is finally healing from a torn ACL that has had him out of the water for around 6 months. Pyper said he has been riding daily and soon we can expect some photos of him back in action.

Morey grom John "Beans" Porzuczek checked in and said the recent string of south swells to hit Southern California has made some fun waves. John forwarded a nice picture of him getting slotted at Wedge on the past south swell.

Greyson "Grommie" Waller also stopped by the Morey offices this week and picked up some new boards. Grommie soon jets off to Japan
to sample some fun waves and soak up some local culture and judging from grommie's hair, I am sure he will have some fans over there!

Churchill Swimfins is proud to announce the addition of Jeff Hubbard to the team! On Thursday August 21st 2008, Hubbard inked the deal and then turned around and won the USBA HB Pro contest that went down this weekend using his new Churchill fins for the first time in competition. In early 2009 Churchill plans to release the Hubb Makapuu signature fin which will fuse the traditional Churchill fin shape with all of Hubb’s custom designs to make the most high performance bodyboarding fin in the world.

In 1936 Owen Churchill adapted structural concepts from dolphins to develop the world’s first pair of swimfins. The unique design of the Churchill Makapuu fins is universally recognized by bodyboarders and bodysurfers as the optimum design for power, style and acceleration. Churchill swimfins are sold worldwide and are endorsed by some of the world’s best bodyboarders, so it was only a natural fit to have aerial specialist and 2006 World Champion Jeff Hubbard join the team. Jeff’s radical high performance riding is admired by most all bodyboarders and to pair that up with an iconic fin like the Makapuu is a match that was long anticipated!

Big congrats goes out to John Idano for putting on 2 successful video premieres this past weekend for his much anticipated video entitled Soft Core. Morey was a proud sponsor of the video and a lot of riders turned up for the events including Morey’s own John “BEANS” Porzuczek (pictured above with John). For more pictures of the premieres and all the fun, check out www.theclaptheory.com
In other news, Mike Lepiere just got back from a 2 month Mexico excursion were he scored endless empty barrels on uncharted mainland Mexico coastlines and also managed to compete in the annual Puerto Bodyboard contest where he narrowly missed the finals and went down in the semis.

SOFTCORE VIDEO PREMIERE

Morey art director and top videographer John Idano is having some huge primiere's for his new video SOFT CORE this weekend so make sure to check them out. There will be one at the Huntington Beach Hilton on friday night (8-22-08) and it is going to be huge and following that will be the USBA Huntington event the next day, so a lot of big stuff going down! Also a SOFT CORE video release party in Oceanside on the night of the 23rd. Be there or be square!!!! Here's the driving directions to the Huntington Beach Premiere. Heres the directions to the August 23rd Premiere in Oceanside at Wings Pizza-n-Things(Watch the video on 36 plasmas)

MOREY'S NEW PRO FISHERMAN

Virginia Beach local and Morey pro team rider Ricky Miller has recovered fully from donating one of his kidney's to save his dad's life. As of recent, people have been reporting that he has been ripping it up around Virgina Beach and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ricky is also an avid fisherman and he sent us a few photos of him slaying a big one this past weekend.

SAN CLEMENTE OCEAN FESTIVAL

This past weekend in Australia, Morey’s Alex Bunting and Harry Dixon we on hand signing autographs and raffling prizes at the Surf Dive and Ski shop in NSW during the Shark Island contest in Cronulla Australia. In other news make sure to check out the San Clemente Ocean Festival if you are in Orange County this weekend (July 19th & 20th), Morey will be on hand letting people demo new models for free and also giving free bodyboard lessons. For more info on the event you can logo onto www.ebodyboarding.com

Madman Mike Lepiere is getting ready to jet off to a secret spot in Mainland Mexico in which he claims is like Puerto Escondido but without the crowd. Lepiere pictured above is doing some barrel training in deep San Diego before he jets off. Check out that mean 80's Zinka job!